100% Camurça

Outro Dupieux maluco, a destruir a razão, desta vez baseado principalmente no comportamento obscuro do personagem principal e no que fará no passo seguinte. O melhor de Dupieux é o quanto ele se afasta da realidade sem perder o contacto com a psicologia humana, que ele também desconstrói com uma visão inteligente. Mas não percebi bem a escolha da paleta de cores repulsivas aqui. Talvez uma paráfrase do «vídeo doméstico» do herói, mas em todo o caso fez com que o filme descesse um pouco para mim. [Cannes] (16/05/2019)

"Juste cool?!" Short, simple, but also blisteringly funny and playfully wacky comedy, in which the plucky chameleon Jean Dujardin plays a mentally ill guy named Georges, who is literally obsessed with his new deerskin jacket. And thanks to this jacket, he develops a killer style. I don't want to reveal anything further about the plot, because it is much more entertaining to watch the movie go in increasingly more and more bizarre directions with every passing minute. If you accept the fact that Deerskin probably takes place in a world where extremely severe acts do not have any real consequences at all, you will be really entertained by this. It could easily have been one act longer. [Sitges 2019] (16/10/2019)

Uma história cómica simples e absurda, baseada na divertida atuação do protagonista e na lógica sem sentido do mundo ficcional, que se resigna a algumas ações e reações, não lhe diz praticamente nada sobre o protagonista e o seu passado, e apenas cumpre de forma simples (mas não estupidamente) o seu tema maluco. Para Dupieux um tal padrão modesto, é basicamente um jogo, mas contém algumas ideias que são boas para rir. (10/10/2019)

Quentin Dupieux could not have come up with a more bizarre story. I was most amused by the central plot, which revolves around a smug man and his obsession with a deerskin jacket. However, once the movie slipped into a kind of retro horror, I didn't find it very funny anymore. (60%) (03/06/2022)

Deerskin is one of the most unpredictable and wrenching comedies of the year. At first, it looks very understated and chooses a slower pace. The decoration is thoughtfully set in lighter tones of brown, grey and beige, which can look a little bland, but it works perfectly with Dujardin's outfit; we must not forget it, because his jacket is the second main "character" of the film. Their common dream is to be unique, and that's when this supple comedy turns into a chilling and absurdly frantic ride. Gradually a hat, shoes, trousers and gloves join the jacket, and suddenly Dujardin's outfit is downright murderous. Not even Carrie Bradshaw has this much style. Finally, I must not forget to say that I promise never to wear a jacket again in my life... (06/02/2020)

Jean Dujardin's magnetism, and the "ordinary" charm of the protagonist he plays, takes us by the hand to make us enter the inner "reality" of the main character of Deerskin. His delirium imposes itself on the spectator with simplicity, and an efficiency that Quentin Dupieux masters well. Indeed, he builds a narrative verisimilitude that relies, on the one hand, on the use made by the main protagonist, of a videocam and of the filmed reality that he stages - a kind of mise en abîme of the film itself - in the pursuit of the satisfaction of a tyrannical "superego" (the very "deerskin" (suede) jacket that gives the film its title); and on the other hand, the director makes us perceive the "vision" of the main protagonist, and the resulting actions, as all the more real as they seem validated by the young waitress (played by Adèle Haenel) of the hotel. The latter, seeking to satisfy her dream of becoming a film "editor", and apparently taking a liking to the main protagonist's project, starts watching the images shot and recorded by the videocam, in order to edit them. The film borders on the absurd, while making us believe in this story, thanks to the patient, but effective, weaving done by the director, in the construction of the characters. As important, the choice of the shots and an effective direction of the photography, contribute to this "waking dream" with (dark) humorous touches. (18/10/2022)